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Bank your vote! Early voting for gun owners in Ohio

6:00am Tuesday, August 06, 2024
For many years, those who support gun control have had a huge advantage in voting because they have encouraged their supporters to vote early, either in-person or absentee by mail. This gives them significantly more time to pile up votes. Plus it helps voter activation groups focus their efforts only on those who have not voted as elections get closer. We need to stop giving them this advantage...

Registration for 2024 Fall Youth Shoot Now Open

6:00am Monday, August 05, 2024
Don't miss the 2024 Fall Youth Shoot. REGISTER TODAY When: Saturday and Sunday Sep. 14-15, 2024 Camping on-site starting Friday night, Sep. 13 Where : Tusco Rifle Club 2132 Midvale Mine Rd SE Dennison, OH 44621 Cost: Only $10 per Youth Adult Volunteers Free Weekend Camping Free This is a special 2-day event to offer youth the chance to camp, shoot, and compete. Activities include a firearm safety...

AOC inadvertently acknowledges modern sporting rifle is 'common'

by Larry Keane
6:00am Friday, August 02, 2024
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Heller decision in 2008, the court stated that entire classes of commonly owned firearms cannot be banned from legal sale and possession by law-abiding citizens. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just called modern sporting rifles like the AR-15 "common," saying they're "one of the most popular semi-automatic weapons in the United States." VIDEO

Big-tech anti-2A censorship strikes again

by Joe Bartozzi
6:00am Wednesday, July 31, 2024
In recent years, big-tech platforms like YouTube and Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) have imposed draconian restrictions on firearms-related content. A glaring example is McKenna Geer, a Paralympic shooter poised to represent Team USA in Paris. Instead of celebrating her triumphs, Meta chose to shadow-ban her for simply sharing sports-related content.

Anti-2A Harris supports gun confiscation

6:00am Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Gun owners should understand that Kamala Harris poses the gravest threat to their Second Amendment rights. In fact, Harris’ record suggests that she does not believe the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms at all. Moreover, Harris has repeatedly called for government confiscation of some of America’s most popular firearms.

PODCAST: 16 Things Hollywood Gets Wildly Wrong on Guns

6:00am Monday, July 29, 2024
The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on Podbean and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , iHeartRadio and many other platforms. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. How to Listen to Podcasts on Your Mobile Phone *** Episode 117: Hollywood makes some great movies and TV shows. But they don't always get the details right, especially when it comes to guns. Bad...

On Second Amendment, Harris might be even worse than Biden

by Larry Keane
6:00am Friday, July 26, 2024
Now all eyes and attention are turned toward Vice President Kamala Harris to pick up the torch. On policies — specifically, the Second Amendment — Vice President Harris owns the entire failed and horrendous record she helped push along during the three and a half years of the Biden administration. And she could be even worse.

Is White House colluding with Everytown, Chicago against Glock? House's Comer investigating

by Larry Keane
6:00am Thursday, July 25, 2024
The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee isn’t playing games when it comes to the White House avoiding answers to questions about potential collusion with anti-gun groups to target Glock Inc. with a frivolous lawsuit.

California tracking firearms credit card use, but criminals — not so much

by Larry Keane
6:00am Monday, July 22, 2024
There might soon be a significant increase in the number of cash sales seen at sporting goods stores and retailers that offer firearms, ammunition, and recreational shooting sports and hunting supplies in California. That’s because California became the first state to implement a merchant category code for gun retailers that has been the pet project of gun control groups, the New York-based,...

Lott-Moody paper: Carry laws don't increase gun theft, decrease police effectiveness

6:00am Friday, July 19, 2024
Gun-control groups campaign against right-to-carry laws by claiming guns carried in public pose a substantial threat to public safety, and that concealed carry permitting laws lead to more violent crime, not less. Professor Carl Moody and Dr. John Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center have just released an updated paper finding no evidence that CCW laws are associated with significant...

Eighth Circuit panel rules Minnesota young-adult carry ban unconstitutional

6:00am Thursday, July 18, 2024
A three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has handed down a unanimous 27-page ruling that Minnesota’s ban on concealed carry by young adults is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, giving a victory to the Second Amendment Foundation and its partners.

VA, created by Congress, says it 'would not' comply with pro-gun legislation

6:00am Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Earlier this month, the subcommittee on disability assistance and memorial affairs of the House Veterans Affairs Committee held a legislative hearing on a number of proposed bills that would change various procedures and standards for how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) does business. The VA, of course, is a creation of Congress, as are the statutes that empower, guide, and fund its...

Staccato 'Built for Heroes' Raffle - Big $5,000 Prize Package

6:00am Monday, July 15, 2024
We were feeling patriotic coming out of the Independence Day celebrations. So when we talked to Black Wing Shooting Center about doing an extra special raffle for July, they didn't miss a beat. "You need to offer a Staccato. They're our No. 1-selling high-end pistol. They shoot like 1911s but have all the advantages of a modern design. We can barely keep them in stock."

Citigroup finances 'weapons of war' while refusing banking services to firearms industry

by Joe Bartozzi
6:00am Thursday, July 11, 2024
Citigroup, the international banking giant worth over $300 billion, is holding steadfast to its refusal to provide services to firearm businesses that won’t knuckle under to its gun control demands but is standing by its decision to finance actual weapons of war.

Buckeye Firearms Association PAC Endorses Bernie Moreno for U.S. Senate

6:00am Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Buckeye Firearms Association PAC has announced its endorsement of Bernie Moreno for U.S. Senate . "We're thrilled to throw our support behind Bernie Moreno and help throw out anti-gun, F-rated Sherrod Brown," said Linda Walker, Board President of Buckeye Firearms Association. BFA-PAC leaders sat down with Moreno in May at his campaign headquarters in Columbus to discuss his campaign and stance on...

SCOTUS rejects cases challenging Illinois sporting-rifle ban, for now

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, July 09, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court announced July 2 that it would not review challenges to Illinois' new law that makes it a felony to possess what the state brands as "assault weapons," a term that is defined to include AR-15s. The high court denied petitions to hear six separate cases on the ban because the lower court had not yet issued a final judgment.

PODCAST: The ATF, Cincinnati, and Others Get Slapped Down by the Supreme Court

6:00am Monday, July 08, 2024
The Keep and Bear Radio podcast is hosted on Podbean and is also available on Apple , Google , Spotify , iHeartRadio and many other platforms. Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to hear every episode. How to Listen to Podcasts on Your Mobile Phone *** Episode 116: The US Supreme Court recently ruled that courts, not agencies such as the ATF, should interpret laws. And an Ohio court told...

BFA PAC Announces Grades and Endorsements for Nov. 5, 2024, General Election

6:00am Friday, July 05, 2024
It's time, once again, to issue grades and endorsements to help you vote your gun rights and elect pro-Second Amendment candidates. CLICK HERE to see our grades and endorsements . Volunteers on the BFA PAC Endorsement Committee spend countless hours reviewing candidate survey answers, legislative voting records, and other information to assign grades and select certain candidates for endorsement...

2024 BFA-PAC Grades and Endorsements for the Ohio General Election

7:43pm Wednesday, July 03, 2024
Back to Main Voter Guide Page BFA-PAC is focusing primarily on federal legislative candidates (U.S. Senate and U.S. House), Ohio legislative candidates (Ohio Senate and Ohio House) and select judicial candidates (Ohio Supreme Court and District Courts of Appeal). NOTES: ? generally means the candidate did not submit a survey and/or we do not yet have sufficient information to issue a grade. "q"...

AG Yost: New fingerprint scanners granted to Ohio courts will bolster criminal-records system

6:00am Wednesday, July 03, 2024
A grant program designed to enhance the accuracy and completeness of Ohio’s criminal-records repository will pay for 77 new devices that courts across the state will use to capture defendants’ fingerprints for submission to the database, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced July 2.

Red flag laws, universal background checks might seem divine, but devil is in details

by Joe D. "Buck" Ruth
6:00am Tuesday, July 02, 2024
It's like clockwork with anti-gun government leaders, who promote policies that lead to crime and then rush to blame law-abiding gun owners, the state legislature, and even guns themselves when those policies result in negative statistics. Then they promote the flawed concepts of red flag laws and universal background checks, which sound great until you take a closer look at them.

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